The old ancestor looked at me and sighed, saying, "The evil sects of Taoism are originally of the same lineage, and they regard the spirits of the Soul-Zhao Well in the Yinshan Ghost City as their ancestors. The Black Wood Plate of the Five Ghosts and the Sky Lantern of the White Spirit Sect came from the Soul-Zhao Well. This time, your group..."
I couldn't help but interrupt him when I heard this: "Wait, the Sky Lantern Shining the Heart comes from the Shining Soul Well, are you sure, old ancestor?"
"How could I be wrong? How much do you know, little bastard?" Ah, the old ancestor is angry, and I, the great-grandson, can only make a fortune in silence.
The old ancestor sighed again and said, "The two evil objects, the Black Wooden Plate and the Sky Lantern, made the Five Ghosts and the White Spirit Sect rise, and the Maoshan Sect could not destroy them. You should know what the Black Wooden Plate is, but the Sky Lantern has been lost for more than a thousand years in the White Spirit Sect. People only know that this object can bring spiritual energy to all things, but it is not really a secret. It is also because the White Spirit Sect lost this object that the talents have declined and it is not as strong as the Five Ghosts Sect."
I didn't expect that the Sky Lantern is an evil thing. I guess my dad doesn't know about it. I just listen to him. You said our ancestors were the same. Why didn't they pass down the truth and let me think that thing was a magical artifact
"Grandfather, you should explain the cause and effect of this matter clearly."
The old ancestor nodded and told me the whole story. This story can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago, when the two sects of Taoism were fighting each other. The evil sect mistakenly entered the Yinshan Ghost City and was bewitched by the ghost spirit of the Soul-Zhaojing Well. They worshipped the evil spirit as their ancestor, and then they acted evil and perversely, which was not tolerated by the righteous sect. Later, it developed to the point where water and fire could not coexist.
When the evil sect was defeated by the righteous sect, the main force retreated to the Yinshan Ghost City for refuge. They were not of one mind, and because of the defeat, they blamed each other and split into several factions, among which the Five Ghosts and Bai Ling were the largest.
The Five Ghosts Sect first refined the Black Wood Plate from the Soul-Illuminating Well, and took a group of disciples out of the mountains to settle in Lingnan. The White Spirit Sect, however, refined the Heavenly Lantern Illuminating Heart, which was both good and evil, and took his disciples to Yunnan. The remaining small sects, due to lack of talent, did not get anything useful from the Soul-Illuminating Well, but after all, they could not live in the Ghost City for a long time, so they all left Yinshan, scattered, and lived in seclusion in various places.
The evil arts learned by the descendants of the Feng family all came from the hands of disciples of those small sects. But it was different for Tan Qing. This old bastard was an authentic descendant of the Bai Ling sect. Otherwise, how could he raise living corpses
After hearing this, I understood a little bit that those legends about ghost towns were all true. For example, the joke I told Shen Bing about a flower thief being taken to a ghost town by a Taoist priest, the Taoist priest must be a disciple of an evil sect, otherwise he couldn't come and go freely in a ghost town.
Our ancestors said that although the black wooden plate is evil, it is a magical tool that gathers and disperses ghosts and controls evil spirits, and it does not cause much harm to the world. However, the sky lantern is an evil thing that can cause the world to suffer. Because when this thing comes out of the well, it will plant an evil curse. If the sky lantern shines on the heart, it must first be exterminated. In other words, to use this thing, you must first use the extinction curse, and then use this thing to restore the vitality of all things. But using this thing will be punished by the way of heaven, and you are destined to live no more than two years after using it.
When I heard what was going on, I realized that once this thing was used, it had to be exterminated first and then revived. Could it be so easy to restore it to its original state? No wonder it was called something that was both good and evil. It was probably more evil than good. I suddenly remembered that the dead rat had taught me to use the sky lantern to illuminate the heart and eliminate the wolf demon. Wasn't that bad intention? So I glared at it fiercely.